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Past Incubator Meetings

Past Incubator Meetings

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2023

Learning from Light: An Optica Incubator on Machine Learning
13 - 15 September 2023
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosts: 
Paul Campagnola, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Rama Chellappa, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Antonio Napoli, Infinera Corp., Germany

Optical Waveguides: A Key to Socially Acceptable AR Glasses?
11 - 13 October 2023
The Hotel Murano, Tacoma, Washington, USA

Hosts:
Kai-Han Chang, General Motors, United States
Ali Özgür Yöntem, University of Cambridge/Jaguar Land Rover, United Kingdom
Kaan Akşit, University College London, United Kingdom

Optica Incubator on Imaging Through 100 Scattering Lengths
08 - 10 November 2023
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosts: 
Daniele Faccio, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Andreas Velten, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
Florian Willomitzer, University of Arizona, United States

Lab-on-a-Fiber Incubator: Technologies, Applications, and Opportunities
10 - 12 November 2023
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosts: 
Conor L. Evans, Wellman Center for Photomedicine/Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
Walter Margulis, Centro de Telecomunicações PUC-Rio, Brazil

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2022

Incubator on On-Chip High-Field Nanophotonics
06 - 08 July 2022
Optica Global Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

Hosted by:
Giulio Vampa, National Research Council of Canada, Canada
Gennady Shvets, Cornell University, United States
John Petersen, Imec, Belgium
Esben Witting Larsen, Imec, Belgium

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2021

Perception in Immersive Technologies
30 August - 02 September 2021
Hosted by:
Rigmor C. Baraas, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Francisco Imai, Chair of the Color Technical Group, United States
​Ali Özgür Yöntem, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jon Y. Hardeberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Kaan Akşit, University College London, United Kingdom

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2020

Solving the Bandwidth Challenge of Large 3D Displays​
15 – 17 January 2020
Hosted by:
Daniel Smalley, Brigham Young University, United States
V. Michael Bove, Jr., vmbove.com, United States
Thomas Burnett, FoVI3D, United States

Flat Optics: Recent Advances and Future Opportunities
26 – 28 February 2020
Hosted by:
Federico Capasso
, Harvard University, United States
Wei Ting Chen, Harvard University, United States
Paulo Dainese, Corning Inc., United States

Visual Perception in AR/VR
22 - 25 September 2020
Hosted by:
Rigmor C. Baraas, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Francisco Imai, Chair-Elect of the OSA Color Technical Group, United States
​Ali Ozgur Yontem, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jon Y. Hardeberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

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2019

Quantum Bio-Photonics Incubator
28-30 April 2019
Hosted by:
Alexandra Olaya-Castro, University College London, United Kingdom
Luca Sapienza, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Greg Engel, University of Chicago, United States

Agri-Photonics Incubator: Advanced Spectroscopy in Precision Agriculture
12-14 May 2019
Hosted By: 
Krishnan Parameswaran
, Analog Devices, United States
Joachim Sacher, Sacher Laser, Germany
Amartya Sengupta, IIT-Delhi, India
Gombojav Ariunbold, Mississippi State University, United States

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2018

Big Data in Cultural Heritage Imaging

2-4 May 2018
Hosted by:
John DelaneyNational Gallery of Art, United States 
Martin FischerDuke University, United States 
David SaundersBritish Museum, United Kingdom 

Integrated Photonics in the Mid-IR Incubator

20-22 May 2018
Hosted By: 
Garo KhanarianConsultant, United States 
Robert NorwoodUniversity of Arizona, United States 
Brandon ShawUS Naval Research Laboratory , United States

Generation, Propagation, and Detection of Light Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

8-10 August 2018
Hosted by:
Brandon CochenourNaval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, United States
Eric JohnsonClemson University, United States
Peter MorrisonOffice of Naval Research, United States
Linda MullenNaval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, United States

Metamaterial Films for In-Space Propulsion by Radiation Pressure
7-9 October 2018

Hosted by: 
Grover SwartzlanderRochester Institute of Technology, United States
Les JohnsonNASA Marshall Space Flight Center, United States
Nelson TabiryanBeamCo, United States

Defects by Design: Quantum Nanophotonics in Emerging Materials

28-30 October 2018
Hosted By:
Audrius Alkauskas
Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania
Lee BassettUniversity of Pennsylvania, United States
Kai-Mei FuUniversity of Washington, United States

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2017

Integrated Semiconductor Quantum Photonic Devices
18-20 June 2017
Hosted by:
Daniel Gammon, Navy Research Laboratory, United States
Pascale Senellart, C2N-CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Glenn Solomon, Joint Quantum Institute/NIST, United States
Edo Waks, University of Maryland/Joint Quantum Institute, United States
Materials for Optomechanical Actuation  
25-27 June 2017
Hosted by:
Chris Bardeen, University of California Riverside, United States
Antti Makinen, Office of Naval Research, United States
Peter A. Morrison, Office of Naval Research, United States
Ravi Shankar, University of Pittsburgh, United States
Small Eyes & Smart Minds Incubator
4-6 October 2017

Hosted by:
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, United States
Francisco Imai, Apple, Inc., United States
Ashok Veeraraghavan, Rice University, United States

OSA Illumination Optics Incubator
15-17 November 2017
Hosted by:
Chi Man Fok, Diffractive Optics Ltd., Hong Kong 
Groot Gregory, Synopsys, United States
Julius Muschaweck, ARRI, Germany 
Henning Rehn, OSRAM, Germany 

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2016

Computational Modeling and Performance Metrics for Imaging System Design and Evaluation
13-15 April 2016
Hosted by:
Joseph P. Reynolds, Sensor Performance Modeling Branch, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, United States
Christian G. Graff, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories Center for Devices and Radiological Health U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States 
Precision Measurements in Air Quality Monitoring
18-20 May 2016
Hosted by:
Adam Fleisher, National Institute of Standards & Technology, United States
Partha Banerjee, University of Dayton, United States
Jorge E. Pezoa, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Science and Applications of Nanolasers
7-9 September 2016
Hosted by:
Volker Sorger, George Washington University, United States
Rupert Oulton, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Ren‐Min Ma, Peking University, China
Subwavelength Photonics
21-23 September 2016
Hosted by:
Pavel Cheben, National Research Council of Canada 
Inigo Molina Fernandez, University of Malaga, Spain
David Smith, Duke University, United States
Weidong Zhou, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Emerging Connections: Quantum and Classical Optics
6-8 November 2016
Hosted by:
Joseph Eberly,
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, United States
Elisabeth Giacobino, CNRS, Laboratori Kastler Brossel, France
Gerd Leuchs, University of Erlangen & Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Nick Vamivakas, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, United States
OSA Future Microscopy Incubator: Merging Adaptive and Computational Imaging
11-13 December
Hosted by:
Tomas Cizmar, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Susan Cox, King's College London, United Kingdom
Brian Patton, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
 

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2015

Optical Interconnects for Extreme-Scale Computing Incubator
09-11 August 2015, Washington, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Photobiomodulation Incubator
30 August - 1 September 2015, Washington, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Michael R. Hamblin, Harvard Medical School, USA
Donald E. Patthoff, DDS, USA
Greg Quarles, Optoelectronics Management Network, USA
Incubator on Label-free Optical Techniques for Biomedical Diagnostics & Imaging:
Challenges and Opportunities for Clinical Translation

16-18 September 2015, Washington, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Paul French, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Laura Marcu, University of California - Davis, USA
Robert J. Nordstrom, National Institute of Health, USA
Juergen Popp, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Brian Wilson, University Health Network, Canada
Nonlinear Metamaterials Incubator
30 September - 02 October 2015, Washington, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Natalia Litchinitser, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Adaptive Structured Illumination Incubator
4-6 November 2015, Washington, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Meng Cui, Purdue University, USA
Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK
Michael Mazilu, University of St. Andrews, UK
Optical Biosensors Incubator
8-10 November 2015, Washington, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Marcella Chiari, Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare (CNR), Italy
Brian Cunningham, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA
Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Selim Unlu, Boston University, USA
Levitated Optomechanics Incubator
2-4 December 2015, Washington, DC USA
Hosted By:
Peter Barker, University College, London, United Kingdom
Mishkat Bhattacharya, Rochester Institute of Technology¸ United States
Nick Vamivakas, University of Rochester, Institute of Optics, United States
Optical Computing Incubator
9-11 December 2015, Washignton, DC, USA
Hosted By:
Ravi Athale, Office of Naval Research, USA
Mark Neifeld, University of Arizona, USA
Demetri Psaltis, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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2014

Quantitative Modeling of Frequency-comb Sources
19 - 21 November 2014
Hosted by:
Thomas F. Carruthers, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, United States
Curtis R. Menyuk, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, United States
Nathan Newbury, National Institute of Standards & Technology, United States
Sergei Turitsyn, Aston University, United Kingdom
Stefano Wabnitz, University of Brescia, Italy

The Fundamental Limits of Optical Energy Conversion
12 - 14 November 2014
Hosted By:
Svetlana V. Boriskina,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Jurgen Michel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Alexander Kildishev, Purdue University, United States
Vivian Ferry, University of Minnesota, United States
Jonathan Tong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Low Level Light Therapy: The Path Forward
20 - 22 August 2014
Hosted By:
Juanita Anders, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, United States
Praveen Arany, National Institutes of Health, United States
James Carroll, THOR Photomedicine Ltd, United States
Michael R. Hamblin, Harvard Medical School, United States
Donald E. Patthoff, DDS, United States

OSA Incubator on Nanophotonic Devices: Beyond Classical Limits
14 - 16 May 2014
Hosted By:
Volker J. Sorger
, The George Washington University, United States
Pablo A. Postigo, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Jung Park, Intel Corporation, United States
Fengnian Xia, Yale University, United States

OSA Incubator Implications of Compressive Sensing Concepts to Imaging Systems
9 - 11 April 2014
Hosted By:
Ravi Athale
, Office of Naval Research, United States
Abhijit Mahalanobis, Lockheed Martin, United States
Joe Mait, Army Research Laboratory, United States
Mark Neifeld, University of Arizona, United States
 

OSA Incubator Topological Order with Photons
2 - 4 April 2014
Hosted By:
Mohammad Hafezi,
Joint Quantum Institute, United States
Steven Girvin, Yale University, United States
Karyn Le Hur, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Jacob Taylor, National Institute of Standards & Technology, United States

OSA Incubator Controlled Light Propagation through Complex Media
5 - 7 March 2014
Hosted By:
Thomas Bifano
, Boston University, United States
Sylvain Gigan, Institut Langevin, France
Jerome Mertz, Boston University, United States
Allard Mosk, University of Twente, Netherlands

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2013

OSA Spatially Precise Optogenetics at Depth Incubator Meeting
Cracking Neural Circuits with Structured Illumination & Ultrafast Imaging in the Intact Brain

8 - 10 December 2013
Hosted By:
Hillel Adesnik
, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Shy Shoham, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Laura Waller, University of California, Berkeley, United States  

OSA Compact X-ray & EUV Light Sources Incubator Meeting
13 - 15 November 2013
Hosted By:
Lahsen Assoufid
, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Sandra Biedron, Colorado State University, United States

Structured Light in Structured Media From Classical to Quantum Optics Incubator
29 September – 1 October 2013
Hosted By:
Richard Hammond
, Army Research Office, United States
Natalia Litchinitser, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States

Scaling Terabit Networks: Breaking Through Capacity Barriers and Lowering Cost with New Architectures and Technologies Incubator
19 – 20 September 2013
Hosted By:
Keren Bergman
, Columbia University, United States
Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Daniel Kilper, CIAN, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, United States
Inder Monga, ESnet, Energy Science Network, United States
George Porter, University of California, San Diego, United States
Kristin Rauschenbach, Raytheon BBN Technologies, United States

Quantum Plasmonics Incubator
21 - 23 August 2013
Hosted By:
Garnett W. Bryant
, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Quantum Measurement Division and Joint Quantum Institute, United States
Joachim Krenn, Institute of Physics, Karl-Franzens-University, Austria
Edo Waks, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, United States

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2012

Clinical Application of Adaptive Optics Retinal Imaging Incubator Meeting
6 - 8 November 2012
Hosted By:
Matthew McMahon
, National Eye Institute, United States
Joseph Carroll, Medical College of Wisconsin, United States
Jacque Duncan, University of California San Francisco, United States
David Williams, University of Rochester, United States

Cavity Optomechanics Incubator Meeting
30 September - 2 October 2012
Hosted By:
Markus Aspelmeyer
, University of Vienna, Austria
Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona, United States

Mesoscale Photonics Incubator Meeting
2 - 4 May 2012
Hosted By:
Aristide Dogariu
, CREOL, United States
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia

3D Display Technology, Perception and Application Incubator Meeting
22 - 23 February 2012
Hosted By:
Nasser Peyghambarian
, University of Arizona, United States
Hong Hua, University of Arizona, United States
V. Michael Bove, Jr., MIT, Media Lab, United States

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2011

Freeform Optics Incubator Meeting
30 October – 1 November 2011
Hosted By:
Pablo Benitez
, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Kevin Thompson, Synopsys, Inc., United States

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